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File:Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo.jpg, featured
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- Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Settlements#Brazil
Info The image shows a street in an informal settlement in Serra da Cantareira, São Paulo. More than just a photograph, it's a window into a reality that is often overlooked. Despite the challenging conditions, with makeshift houses and narrow streets, the photo also captures everyday scenes like children playing, neighbors chatting, and clothes drying in the sun. This image encourages us to observe and understand these realities. All by -- Wilfredor (talk) 12:01, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Support El Golli Mohamed 13:22, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Comment To make a great photo of an ordinary subject, you need to bring something special inside. Special light, special sky, special composition, or special something. Extraordinary subjects are easier to capture, but also rarer in everyday life -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:12, 4 September 2024 (UTC)- Comment Pic is likable, but as Basile Morin said. Try with + Light (not Exposure). We can recover to support. --Mile (talk) 13:41, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Mile are very kind, I have applied the change you requested. Wilfredor (talk) 22:51, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, in my opinion it's not a problem of processing but of light at the beginning -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:09, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Oppose Good documentation image but midday sun (13:28 according to the exif) coming from left side (according to the orientation of the shadows), creating a dull light. This is not something you can change afterwards. My eyes are caught by the wastes and litter in the water, and look for something more exciting to compensate. Unfortunately the houses are not colorful (like in Manarola for example), and seem quite ordinary with the uniform red of their standard bricks. Slightly blurry foreground (perhaps fixable with AI tools). I think Commons has many photos of this kind, featuring banal architecture and taken in the middle of the day. Perhaps at sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, or under a special sky, a stormy weather for example, or colorful clouds, the subject would appear more special -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:09, 5 September 2024 (UTC)- Support I am fine with it. Its slum, aka mess, Manarola is Lux city. Midday sometime help to avoid shadow, unless godlen hours with sun behind. Foreground is not so sharp but if you cut it some info would be lost, like chanel and drying on balcony. --Mile (talk) 09:41, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Basile Morin. -- Karelj (talk) 10:34, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support For finding a composition that works in a chaotic urban landscape worth capturing. — Rhododendrites talk | 14:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Mile, Rhododendrites, your observations are acute and shareable. Thank you Wilfredor for your commitmentː Support Terragio67 (talk) 18:56, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, Terraglo67, although the photo does not show the reality of extreme poverty, nor the dangers associated with being in this environment, such as the insecurity faced by visitors and residents, taking this photo was not easy. The insecurity in these places is high, and I have already experienced being threatened with a gun in a favela. On this occasion, thank God, it didn’t happen, but it was a quick shot: I saw the place, had a few minutes, took the photo, and left calmly. Unlike photographing a tourist destination or a European landscape, this image carries a complex background full of social, economic, and personal factors that make it much more than just a simple capture. Wilfredor (talk) 22:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Mile, Rhododendrites, your observations are acute and shareable. Thank you Wilfredor for your commitmentː
- Support Agree with Basile’s statements, but the subject (a slum) relativizes our criticism; e.g., waste and litter in the water (which are normally a deficit) are an integral part of this photo. And Rhododendrites is right that the composition makes the photo special. – Aristeas (talk) 08:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:17, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:43, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support -- Ю. Данилевский (talk) 08:34, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 15:34, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Settlements#Brazil
